Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government recommends Ukrainian Parliament adopt draft law "On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine" (as to voluntary unification of territorial communities) as a basis

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29 December 2018, 14:45

Committee props a gas emissions bill ‘as-is’ for its acute need

(&nbspInformation Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat&nbsp)

Having considered the gas draft law at stake, the committee suggested
that the Verkhovna Rada adopts - on the first reading - the bill No.9253 on the basics
of monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions.

The purpose of the bill is to regulate the legal and organizational
principles ofmonitoring, reporting and
verification of greenhouse gas emissions in Ukraine.It isvirtually about
creating yet another, extra,state
system ofenvironmental monitoring.

During the discussion, there was observed that the
bill is not flawless, showing, for instance, inconsistency with the basic
legislation on atmospheric air protection, Ukraine’s administrative offenses code
and a number of other laws, including internal variances and duplications of the
current legislation and so forth.

The ecology minister, however,
highlighted that the bill is extremely important for the Ministry
of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, and that its drafting was
conditioned by a pressingneed of addressing the
problems of monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gases through their
state regulation, creating preconditions for the introduction of a trading system
for greenhouse gasquotas, and
that the bill had beenwidely supported
by business associations as well. Then he asked
the committeemen to prop the bill‘as
is’.

In view of the aforesaid, the committee
recommended that the bill be adopted on the first reading, warts
and all.